IP Library Granted Patent US 7,561,132
Granted Patent B2
US 7,561,132 · App. 11/204,108 · Granted Jul 14, 2009

Display device

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Patent No.
US 7,561,132
App. No.
11/204,108
Granted
Jul 14, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

Let a drive circuit chip shrink in outer shape size to thereby enable miniaturization of a display device as a whole. The display device is equipped with a plurality of pixels disposed on a substrate in the form of a matrix and more than one drive circuit chip GDR as mounted on the substrate for causing these pixels to perform a display operation, wherein the drive circuit chip GDR has a plurality of output terminals OT for connection to output wiring lines GL formed on the substrate and a plurality of dummy terminals DT disposed adjacent to one another, and wherein at least one of the output wiring lines GL connected to the output terminals OT is not connected to any one of the dummy terminals DT and is disposed to pass through between the mutually adjacent dummy terminals DT.

Claims (16)

1. A display device comprising a plurality of pixels disposed on a substrate in a matrix form and a drive circuit chip as mounted on the substrate for causing the pixels to perform a display operation, wherein

the drive circuit chip has a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, a first peripheral edge and a second peripheral edge which is opposite to the first peripheral edge and is positioned farther from the pixels than the first peripheral edge,

the plurality of first terminals are a plurality of output terminals which are positioned at the first peripheral edge,

the substrate has a plurality of wiring lines each of which are connected to one of the plurality of output terminals,

the plurality of second terminals are positioned at the second peripheral edge and are adjacent to each other,

at least one wiring line out of the plurality of wiring lines each of which are connected to the one of the plurality of output terminals is a first wiring line which is railed to extend between adjacent ones of the second terminals without connecting to the adjacent ones of the second terminals.

2. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein at least one wiring line out of the plurality of wiring lines each of which are connected to the one of the plurality of output terminals is a second wiring line which is also connected to one of the plurality of second terminals.

3. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first wiring line is a scan signal line.

4. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first wiring line is a video signal line.

5. A display device according to claim 2 , wherein the first wiring line and the second wiring line are scan signal lines.

6. A display device according to claim 2 , wherein the first wiring line and the second wiring line are video signal lines.

7. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein a layout pitch of the plurality of second terminals is equal to or greater than a layout pitch of the plurality of output terminals.

8. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein a total area of terminals which are positioned at the second peripheral edge is at least twenty percent of a total area of terminals which are positioned at the fist peripheral edge.

9. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein a number of terminals which are positioned at the second peripheral edge is at least one tenth of a number of the plurality of output terminals.

10. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein an area per the second terminal is greater than an area per the output terminal.

11. A display device according to claim 1 , wherein the pixels are pixels of a liquid crystal display device.

Assignments (8)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST, INC.
Reel/Frame 065614/0223 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST, INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
Reel/Frame 065614/0644 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY, INC.
Reel/Frame 065654/0250 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 065615/0327 →
MERGER/CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 12, 2011
From: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027363/0315 →
COMPANY SPLIT PLAN TRANSFERRING FIFTY (50) PERCENT SHARE OF PATENTS AND PATENT APPLICATIONS Recorded Dec 12, 2011
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: IPS ALPHA SUPPORT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 027362/0466 →
COMPANY SPLIT PLAN TRANSFERRING ONE HUNDRED (100) PERCENT SHARE OF PATENT AND PATENT APPLICATIONS Recorded Dec 12, 2011
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 027362/0612 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 4, 2005
From: YARITA, KATSUHIKO; TAKAHASHI, HIROYUKI
To: HITACHI, LTD
Reel/Frame 017052/0426 →